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gogmagogMy second presentation is done and over with; I think it sucked even more than presentation #1, to be honest (not even taking into account the 30-minute battle with the tech cart to get the computer/projector working beforehand, which unfortunately disrupted class quite a lot). I guess I wasn't entirely certain what the prof wanted out of it? I mean, I feel like I didn't maybe do enough to talk about trends between the various adaptations, but honestly it's kind of hard to draw parallels between a movie featuring a Playboy Playmate and a children's book featuring Wishbone, despite technically having a common source material, so everything I came up with was pretty general, like mentioning how most adaptations seemed to want to give Beowulf - or Grendel, if he is the main character - a love interest, which is inevitably interesting given the scarcity of women in the story. (...oh god, I shouldn't have said that, now my brain is conjuring up Beowulf/Grendel/Hrothgar OT3 slash. MY KINGDOM FOR BRAIN-BLEACH.) It also didn't help that I kind of slagged off a movie that it turns out my prof really likes, eheheheh. (I don't think I used the word "sucktastic" to refer to it in during my presentation. I don't think...)
But the important thing is that it is over! Now all I have left this semester is getting my Beowulf paper done (or mostly done) this weekend, and then full-time on my seminar paper. Today I spent a while at the library looking through books and finding more possible sources for said seminar paper. But tonight I'm not doing much of anything except going to the reading of my officemate who's graduating with her MFA from the Nonfiction program in a couple of weeks.
Also, as a reward for finishing presentation hell week, I got myself a copy of Heat magazine (the imported British version, natch). It's a trashy British tabloid (sort of like Hello! or OK!) It's been forever since I read it - pretty much since my flatmates Rachel and Fran, who bought it regularly, moved out after the first semester of my year in England - but gosh, I had not realized how much I missed completely trashy British celeb gossip (which I think tends to be way snarkier than US celeb gossip).
...I think my Anglophilia has reached critical mass in preparation for my European vacation. orz
But the important thing is that it is over! Now all I have left this semester is getting my Beowulf paper done (or mostly done) this weekend, and then full-time on my seminar paper. Today I spent a while at the library looking through books and finding more possible sources for said seminar paper. But tonight I'm not doing much of anything except going to the reading of my officemate who's graduating with her MFA from the Nonfiction program in a couple of weeks.
Also, as a reward for finishing presentation hell week, I got myself a copy of Heat magazine (the imported British version, natch). It's a trashy British tabloid (sort of like Hello! or OK!) It's been forever since I read it - pretty much since my flatmates Rachel and Fran, who bought it regularly, moved out after the first semester of my year in England - but gosh, I had not realized how much I missed completely trashy British celeb gossip (which I think tends to be way snarkier than US celeb gossip).
...I think my Anglophilia has reached critical mass in preparation for my European vacation. orz
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Date: 2007-04-28 12:03 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-04-28 06:00 pm (UTC)You'll get used to it! After all, you got used to me in person. XD